The Dark Night and Clinical Depression

There is an interesting article on Beliefnet’s blog, Beyond Blue: A spiritual journey to mental health, in which Terese J. Borchard attempts to draw a line between the experience of loss and spiritual dryness which John of the Cross described as the Dark Night...

Happiness and Television

A recent study from the University of Maryland shows an inverse correlation between the amount of time one spends watching television and one’s personal sense of happiness.  In other words, one can detect how miserable a person is by measuring how much...

Life Class and Bibliotherapy

There is an interesting article in Slate Magazine today about an English group called the School of Life, which offers “meticulously art directed” classes that include learning the arts of conversation and how to live one’s life–and even to...

The Gospel of Thomas and the Spiritual Life

Jesus said, “Wretched is the body that depends on a body, and wretched is the soul that depends upon these two.” ———–Gospel of Thomas (Logion 87) The spiritual life demands an entirely new orientation. We’ve been looking at our feet. We’ve been...